“If I could say it, I wouldn’t have to dance it” (Isadora Duncan):

 A Philosophical Investigation of Multimodality

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INSTRUCTORS

COURSE DESCRIPTION

COURSE SCHEDULE & DETAILED DESCRIPTION

READING AND MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES:

  

 MUSIC AND MULTIMODALITY:

 

   Videos:

     

  • Video discussions and demonstrations relating to research at the Four M’s laboratory at University of Oslo:

Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Kristian Nymoen; Cynthia M. Grund; William Westney; Ståle A. Skogstad (2010). "Video Suite - in Three Movements: Jensenius-Westney-Grund on Motion-capture, Music and Meaning." Multimodal webpage presentation of original motion-capturevideo with accompanying audio as well as original documentary- and interview-video and audio of the motion-capture labwork. Webpage: www.nnimipa.org/JWG.html  on the website for NNIMIPA: Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics, a network funded under The Nordic Council of Ministers' NordPlus Program. NNIMIPA Webmaster and Network Coordinator: C.M. Grund.

 

  • Video of an “Un-Master Class” workshop in action (filmed in Sønderborg, Denmark):

A   documentary  about   William  Westney's   Un-Master  Class,  filmed  at  Alsion  Concert  Hall  in  Sønderborg   November 24, 2009  was broadcast for the first time on ALT-Aabenraa Lokal TV during the week of February 8, 2010. To view the documentary, please see www.aabenraa-lokal-tv.dk/wp/2010/02/08/3242/ in order to access the segment directly on ALT's homepage.

 

   Articles, book chapter and an essay:

 

      Articles:

 

  • Grund, Cynthia M. (2006). "Interdisciplinarity and Computer Music Modeling and Information Retrieval:   When  Will  the  Humanities Get into the Act." Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval: Lecture notes in computer science, nr. 3902, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer Verlag, s. 265-273, 2006.www.springerlink.com/content/q167h02397222230/fulltext.pdf

  

  • Grund, Cynthia M. (2005). “Music Information  Retrieval,  Memory and Culture:  Some  Philosophical  Remarks.”  Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. Joshua D. Reiss and Geraint A. Wiggins, eds. London: Queen Mary, University of London, pp. 8-12. (For ISMIR2005 online proceedings, please see http://ismir2005.ismir.net/proceedings/index.html).

  

 

      Book chapter:

 

 

     Essay:

  

  

  Book chapter, two articles and two podcasts about the Percipitopia project in Second Life:

 

      New Book:

 

  • Designing   New   Media:  Learning, Communication  and  Innovation.   Cynthia M. Grund   and   Jesper  Pilegaard  have  a  chapter in this book, which has just been published in April, 2010 by Academica, entirely in English.  The chapter - "The Real, The Virtual, . . ., and the Practical" presents our Percipitopia project on the virtual SDU-campus in Second Life and discusses diverse philosophical, pedagogical and design issues which it raises For the book, see www.gyldendal-akademisk.dk/Books/9788776757489.aspx  and http://flipper.gyldendal.dk/9788776757489

      Articles:

 

 

  • Grund, Cynthia M. and Jesper Pilegaard (2008).  "Percipitopia: An Educational and  Research Tool Utilizing Digital Content Creation and Textual Reappropriation in Second Life." Paper accepted on the basis of a peer-reviewed abstract and presented by Grund and Pilegaard at Digital Content Creation: Creativity, Competence, Critique:The second international DREAM conference, September 18-20, 2008 University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. Electronically published at www.dreamconference.dk/nyheder/Grund%2C%20Cynthia%20M.%20et%20al..pdf
  • Grund,  Cynthia M., Rasmus Blok  and  Jesper Pilegaard  (2008). "Perception and Reality in – and out – of Second LifeSecond Life as a Tool for Philosophical Reflection and Instruction at the University of Southern Denmark."  Paper accepted on the basis of a peer-reviewed abstract and presented by Blok at the European University Information Systems Organisation conference EUNIS2008: VISION IT - Vision for IT in Higher Education, June 24 - 27, 2008, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Electronically published at www.eunis.dk/papers/p10.pdf. ISBN for electronic publication: 978-87-91234-58-3; ISBN for printed publication: 978-87-91234-56-9.

 

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PROPOSED EVALUATION METHODS FOR THE COURSE

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

BIFRÖST (ENTRY PAGE)

 

 

 

 

The Aesthetics of Music and Sound - www.soundmusicresearch.org              

Cross-Disciplinary Interplay between the Humanities, Technology and Musical Practice